Method of candying cherries.



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No. 819,286. PATENTED MAY 1, 1906. K. KIEPER.

METHOD OF GANDYING CHERRIES. 1

APPLICATION FILED D110. 27. 1904.

FIG.1 FIGJZ FIG. 3

I Inventqr.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1906.

Application filed December 2'7, 1904. Serial No. 238,451.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL KIEFER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Methods of CandyingCherries with the Stems, of. which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the process of candying cherries with sugar, thecherries having the stems attached, such fruit being commonly acked inboxes and used for eating and coo ing purposes. The purpose of havriesare pitte ofthe present known methods.

ing the stem attached is to produce a nicer a pearance of the fruit and,second, to enable t e person eating the cherries to pick them from thebox and eat without getting'the fingers sticky.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure ,1 shows a cross-section throughthe finished product of my improved process. Fig. 2 shows a View of theroduct. Fig. 3 shows a cross-section throug the roduct of a modificationof my improve process. Fig. 4 shows a stem prepared by a modification ofthis process. i

For the pur osepf my invention the cher- (i in such a manner that theseed is extracted throughthe stem-hole. The cherries are then subjectedto a candying rocess, a description of which is not the o ject ofthis invention. This may be done by any They may also be colored,the'coloring, usually in imitation of the natural coloring, being alight red. I now take the stems and boil them se arately in a solutionof about 10 Baum, et-

or other means intothe cherry, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the heavierpart A, which formerly was attached to the cherry, is shoved fartherinto the cherry, as shown. Candied cherries have enou h firmness to-beelastic, and in the course 0% drying will attach themselves to the stemsufficiently to be lifted out of the box by the stem and eaten withoutbecoming loosened unintentionally. If greater security of fastening iswanted, the stem may be dipped into molten cane-sugar, as shown in Fig.4, which attaches itself in the sha e of a pearl and hardensimmediately. T e stem so prepared is shoved into the seed-hole, as shownin Fig. 3.

. What I claim asmy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The process of producing a seedless candied cherry with stem,consisting of seeding the cherry through the stem-hole, candying it,attachingthe stem after being hardene itself by shovin the thicker artformerly attached to the c erry into the mterior of the cherry, and.allowing the flesh of the cherry to subse uently harden around it.

2. he process of producing seedless candied cherries with stem,consisting of seeding,

candying and coloring the cherries and stems separatel attaching thestem to the cherry afterwar by shoving the thicker art of the stemwithin the stem-hole of the c erry, and allowing the flesh of the cherryto close and harden around the stem.

3. A seedless candied cherry having the stem attached, characterized byhaving the appearance ofthe natural cherry in color and form, notshowing any obliteration on the flesh of the cherry except near thestem-hole,

having no seed, and having the'thicker part of the stem shoved nearerthe center than in. i

a fresh cherry.

In testimony whereof I have s gned my name in the presence of two,subscn ing w1tnesses. k

, I I KARL KIEFER. Witnesses: E. J.'Arrm'ron,

G.'W. WEBDEN.

